How does CUPS determine server destination?

[Michael Sweet]

angelb at bugarin.us wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have two servers, Server A and Server B, having the same
> printers and both server are running concurrently.
> 
> A client is setup to Server A as its default server and at
> the same time a BrowsePoll is set to query Server B.

How are you setting the default server?  If via client.conf, then
the BrowsePoll stuff will never be used...

> When the client system sends a print job, does it send its
> job directly to the default server or does the scheduler
> somehow employs an algorithm that will select a server based
> on certain criteria? If so, how does scheduler determine
> which server and what are the criteria?

If you have the ServerName set in client.conf, then the job is
sent to that server all the time.

If you use BrowsePoll in cupsd.conf, then the local cupsd will
alternate between the servers.

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